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Florida's GOP governor is hindering Trump's Jacksonville convention in a 'stunning act of political pettiness'

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Speed ReadsV is for VendettaThe people in charge of putting together President Trump's Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, next month have , : time, the state's raging , and money. The convention planners are "under pressure to raise tens of millions of dollars in the next five weeks to help finance the three-day convention," and as they struggle against this "almost impossibly rushed time frame," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is actively "hindering those efforts," .DeSantis "has directed his top fund-raiser, Heather Barker, to tell donors not to give to the convention because of a personal dispute between the governor and Susie Wiles, his former campaign manager who is serving as an informal adviser to the convention planners," , citing multiple people familiar with his actions. DeSantis fell out with Wiles, a longtime, well-connected Florida GOP operative who lives in Jacksonville, last fall over suspicions she leaked an embarrassing personal memo suggesting DeSantis charge lobbyists for access.Trump's campaign credits Wiles with helping it win Florida in 2016, when she served as its Florida political director, and when DeSantis told Trump over the phone that Wiles was overrated as an operative, "Trump did not respond, and changed the subject," . DeSantis lobbied Trump to after North Carolina required masks, social distancing, and other measures from turning the RNC into . Most of the contributions for the Jacksonville convention are coming from national donors, so convention fund-raisers say DeSantis' alleged sabotage is having little effect, the Times reports. But still, "the governor's threat to hold up resources in his own state was seen by Republican officials as a stunning act of political pettiness." .

Speed ReadsV is for VendettaThe people in charge of putting together President Trump's Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, next month have , : time, the state's raging , and money. The convention planners are "under pressure to raise tens of millions of dollars in the next five weeks to help finance the three-day convention," and as they struggle against this "almost impossibly rushed time frame," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is actively "hindering those efforts," .DeSantis "has directed his top fund-raiser, Heather Barker, to tell donors not to give to the convention...

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